Новости за 16.05.2016

LONDON (AP) — Weak Chinese economic data weighed on global stocks Monday at the start of a week that's likely to be dominated by speculation over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in June.

LONDON (AP) — Weak Chinese economic data weighed on global stocks Monday at the start of a week that's likely to be dominated by speculation over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in June. Though partially offset by solid retail sales data, the news that industrial production growth slipped to a year-on-year rate of 6 percent in April from 6.8 percent the previous month reinforced concerns over the scale of the slowdown in the Chinese economy. The Chinese poured a record... Читать дальше...

Austria regards a Russia-EU project to build a pipeline that will bring natural gas under the Baltic Sea to Europe as an economic opportunity it is happy to take part in, Austria’s Ambassador to Russia Emil Brix said.

Summer is the time Americans like to hit the roads, but those driving to their vacation destination say they are concerned about getting stuck in traffic snarls and traveling on roads and bridges that are unsafe.

Russia''s sports minister Vitaly Mutko has apologised for the doping scandal that has threatened his country''s participation at this summer''s Olympics.

Around 60 000 pupils in Vuwani, Limpopo, who have already been without schooling for two weeks will have to wait a little longer before classes resume.

Meanwhile, The Nice Guys’ Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling put on quite the comedy act.

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The reputation of drones has to date not been great. However, some NGOs have found a more positive use for the flying machines.

One of Canada's two newest astronauts finally has a confirmed ticket to space. He's David Saint-Jacques, who has a background in engineering, astrophysics and medicine.

The biker can be seen balancing on one leg

Jaguares skipper Agustin Creevy was suspended for one week after dangerously tackling the Shark's Jean Deysel in a weekend Super Rugby match.

MD of the security company believed to be responsible joked his company 'is probably about to go into liquidation'.

How did you learn about sex and relationships? At home? In school? The playground? From the internet?

For millions of young people across the world, sexuality education - if it happens at all - will be too little, too biological and too late.

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FORT MITCHELL, Ky., May 16 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton has a job for her husband Bill if she becomes president. She said she'll put him 'in charge of revitalizing the economy."

A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about "the dying middle class." But the word "dying" might be more appropriate if we were watching the regrettable but inevitable effects of natural forces at work. We're not. We're seeing the fruits of deliberate action - and sometimes of deliberate inaction - at the highest levels of power.

The great American middle was never large enough, even at its height. It always excluded too many people - sometimes, shamefully, merely for their skin color. Читать дальше...

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A 64-year-old cancer survivor has received the first penis transplant in the United States, The New York Times reported.

A team of about twelve doctors and more than two dozen additional healthcare workers completed the extremely complex 15-hour surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital on May 8 and 9.

"We're cautiously optimistic," Dr. Curtis L. Cetrulo, a leader of the surgical team, told the Times. "It’s uncharted waters for us."

Doctors hope the patient... Читать дальше...

The Warriors won Game 5 – and the series – against the Trail Blazers, but they lost Andrew Bogut to a strained adductor. Will the center return for Game 1 of the conference finals against the Thunder tonight? Monte Poole of CSN Bay Area: Though the Warriors did not scrimmage on Sunday, center Andrew Bogut […]

The courtship of U.S. crane and port-equipment company Terex may turn out to suit all parties, including Finland’s Konecranes and China’s Zoomlion.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Vietnam veteran in Minnesota says he's desperate to get his stolen dog back because the service animal helps him cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Al Qaeda in Pakistan has secretly dispatched over a dozen of its most seasoned veterans there, TOI reported quoting The NYT.

SIBOLANGIT, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers on Monday found the bodies of 17 people who were among 20 university students and two guides who went missing in rain-triggered floods and landslides at a popular waterfall in western Indonesia, an official said. Seasonal rains often cause flooding and landslides in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or flood-prone plains close to rivers.

Good coffee and free WiFi make this quiet café a destination in a noisy city